Sacred Medicine Journey

Comment from Kristine Vanschyndel

I was blessed with the opportunity to embark on a journey through Ecuador with my partner for 3 months. The whole adventure was a life changing experience. Following a 2 week Ayahuasca/San Pedro retreat, we travelled to Vilcabamba, a most anticipated place to visit while in Ecuador. We were recommended to see Felicia by a friend and experience her medicine in her sacred garden. We are so very grateful to have had this experience. Felicia has created a truly magical space and is so kind to open her doors and invite others to share medicine for self healing, reflection, and transformation. So much respect and gratitude is given to Grandfather San Pedro and Pachamama by Felicia, maintaining sacredness in the ceremony .The medicine was very powerful, allowing me to feel great connections and experience immense self reflection. Thank you so much for this experience. I feel grateful to have met you, and privileged to have taken your medicine. Until we meet again, take care :)
Love and Light
Kristine

Comment from Rebecca and Toshi

We visited Felicia at the tail end of a long medicine journey
throughout Peru and Ecuador thinking it would be a nice way to wind
down and prepare for life back at home. We had heard so many great
reviews about Felicia from fellow plant workers so we knew we were in
good hands but none of the reviews had quite prepared us for the
experience we had that night in Felicia's sacred garden. The knowledge,
insight and infinite love bestowed upon us will not be soon forgotten -
it has changed us both in the most profound and wonderful ways. The
power of Felicia's huachuma is up there with the best of the medicine
journeys we have experienced anywhere. Thank you Felicia, the spirit of
your drum will remain with us always.

Love and light from Japan.

Comment from Colin Frederick

After researching sacred medicines for several years I was finally able
to undertake my journey to South America to work with the plants. I
spent 5 weeks at an Ayahuasca centre in Iquitos in order to physically
and spiritually detox before a planned continuation of my work with
Father Huachuma/San Pedro.

I spent several months trying to find a suitable person or center who
worked with Huachuma but it was not as easy as with Ayahuasca. I came
across Felicia's website during an internet search and was immediately
drawn to her warmth and the positive comments of those that had
journeyed with her. The fact that she is female is also both unusual
and important in that I really wanted to work with a balancing and
loving female energy.

Both of my two ceremonies were amazingly powerful and even before I
drank the medicine I felt a strong shift while Felicia was conducting
her smudging/blessing. The medicine took effect after only 20 minutes
and from that moment until the next morning I was swept away into
another world. I experienced tremendous body movement and release of
fear and later anger which was held deep within my cells. My visions
were of a power which surprised me and were certainly as strong as my
experiences with Mother Ayahuasca. My most powerful moments were spent
with a majestic statue of Pachamama/Mother nature Felicia has next to
her house,sitting at the ceremonial camp fire and in a field of
beautiful fireflies just next to the ceremonial space. Felicia's also
uses a sacred drum and a sacred rattle which was at times frighteningly
powerful.

Felicia is a rare soul who works with the medicine for the betterment
of those who visit her as well as mankind as a whole. This is reflected
by the power of her medicine and so I cannot recommend her highly
enough.

I thank her for the gift of her ceremonies but also of her friendship
and kindness. If you interested in undertaking such an experience rest
assured that with Felicia you will be in very good hands.

Comment from Michelle from Canada

This past last year,
journeying with plant medicines has become VERY popular with foreigners
but not without detriment to this sacred ritual experience.
The trend has found randoms dredged up through the net,
herded by the bus load and dumped into strange lands with a slew of
wannabe shamans. These newbie/wannabe shamans have little or no
experience in either brewing the medicine or conducting the ritual
itself.

Worse still, these remote
settings pair up unscreened journeyers who have the potential to
disrupt or end journeys of other participants... OR even cause direct
harm, in the worse case scenario. Very often, too, there lacks a direct
conduit of communication between the maestro and the initiate from
cultural barriers and language differences yet verbal communication is
key in this process to understanding the symbolism, asking questions
and requesting help, if needed. So, CAVEAT EMPTOR or buyer
beware, if "shopping" for a shamanic experience in this newly spawned
"spiritual industry". The massive flooding of initiates and
imitators has obscured the direct passage to authentic journeying.

To begin with, one should
understand that shamans are BORN, claimed and then taught directly by
the spirits, always. They are never self-appointed,
self-taught nor are they motivated by a lack of material assets or by a
means to earn a living. Their purpose is very deeply rooted
in their earthly incarnation. Felicia is the embodiment of
the authentic shaman, in this sense. She does not recruit or
herd you. She claims that if you are inquiring about the journey, it is
simply in response to the call of the plant entity itself.
There may be others offering this plant journey in this
location but choosing them would be exactly like taking the plant
medicine alone and without guidance because these people are not
shamans at all- they are all of the self-appointed variety... all
posers, if you will. There are consequential and inherent risks in
choosing this option that I need not detail.

One thing that sets Felicia
apart from the many is that she speaks many languages and by virtue is
able to translate the symbolism and meaning across the cultural and
language divides. She is devoted to her craft and begins to create a
healing space for you from the time of your initial contact with her
and in the initial meeting with her before the journey. She works along
with you in order to make the determination of whether anything is
contraindicated in the taking of the medicine and will advise you upon
careful preparations that you personally must undertake in order to get
ready for the experience. She tirelessly works to prepare
the ritual well in advance and is diligent in rooting out any
potential, unforeseen problems to ensure that you have the best
possible experience in a well-guarded and safe environment.

I found my own rituals with
Felicia to be esthetically beautiful ones and performed with incredible
care, devotion, skill and higher gifts. Blanketed under the
beautiful Andean starry skies, the stars move around the night campfire
which blazes and wafts the scent of Palo Santo. If I so much
as stirred, Felicia was immediately by my side so it is the perfect
safe, controlled environment for your altered state of consciousness.
Individual experiences of the journey range widely so my own
would be very different from yours but I can say that in general, it is
ecstatic, profound and holds a huge potential to transform and heal
your life by aligning you with higher, healing energies of Earth.
It opens up other dimensional realities if you are ready to
perceive them but because they are other-dimensional, it somehow defies
description.

If you are called to this
sacred experience, it is indeed an honor. If it resonates
with you, pursue it. Don't worry about the smaller details
around it like how much, who with, when....as I assure you that you
will be in good hands and it honors a purpose in you that is much
greater than you, yourself, and these finer details. I have
journeyed many times with Felicia over the past five years and she has
definitely helped to transform my life. I overcame a long battle (+20
years) with an auto-immune disease that plagued me in just a handful of
journeys. WOW!

Safe travels! May both your
outward and inward journeys be great for you! MICHELLE

Comment from Lesley Myburgh

I met Felicia in 1996 on a
journey to Vilcabamba. I will never forget that first meeting! For the
last two decades I have worked with many world known shaman, amongst
them, Credo Mutwa, the spiritual leader of the Zulu tribe from South
Africa, Freddie Quispe (“Puma”), Ruben Orrelano,
Kucho,….all from Peru, Jerry Wills, Wolf, and many others
from the States, Mexico, Japan, Australia and other parts of the world.
I consider Felicia to be
the most knowledgeable and most powerful shaman that I have ever had
the opportunity of knowing. It is because of her
knowledge and teachings that I have been able to become a well known
authority on the healing of this plant.(I am in most of the guide books
of Peru)

Felicia is truly the most powerful
healer/shaman/teacher that I know. I thank her for her
unending wisdom, healing and teachings she gives me and others so
freely. If you have the opportunity to drink this sacred plant with
this sacred woman, you are the luckiest of the lucky.

Comment from Anonymous

I began with ceremonies and
energy work in the 80’s, first attending the sweat lodge (temezcal)
ceremonies of Amos, a Lakota Sioux in Red Wing Minnesota, and Pipe
ceremonies of Judy Ciclain. I learned various forms of energy healing,
and from my studies of herbal medicine I learned of the sacred plants
and the healing on shamanic ceremonies of different people. I went to
Peru and drank the sacred tea, Ayahuasca, with Guillermo Arrevalo, a
shipipo curandero, and Norma Pandura, shamana in Iquitos. I also went
twice to Brazil, for special ceremonies with Luis Eduardo Luna. From
these and others I have witnessed the ceremony ( different forms of )
and journeyed to other realms to learn how we can help heal the
consciousness of people separated from Gaia

In November 2005 I met the
shamana Felicia in Vilcabamba, and returned after 1 month there ,
specifically to take part in her sacred medicine ceremony. I felt
really blessed to be in the ceremony with such a compassionate and
powerful shamana. She lights the fire, drums her rhythm, sings her
sacred songs, prays with wise woman’s words and and
understanding heart.She was great at guiding the way for us, and being
there in whatever way we needed. She is a very special being, a fine
shaman, and I recommend her medicine.

Anonymous

Comment from Blair

I've known a few shamans in
my life, Maria Sabina in Huatla, Doña Julietta in San Mateo,
Eloxochitlan, and the Huichol shaman Brant Secunda. In my
opinion Felicia is one in a line of the powerful shamans.

Comment from Susan Ryan

My name is Susan Ryan.
I have a Masters Degree in Counseling and I have worked
extensively with Altered States and I am writing this to give my
support and share the confidence I have in Felicia and her ability to
deal with whatever arises for people during Sacred Medicine Journeys.
Felicia's work is highly intuitional, which is an essential
ingredient for a good Shaman. There is no book that can
teach you this. It is about being fully connected to the
energy of the present moment. It is about listening with
more than just your ears and seeing with more than just your eyes.
Felicia's intuitional skills are highly developed and she
uses this gift to assist her during the Sacred Medicine Journeys.
Felicia is a gentle and masterful guide in the journey of
discovering ourselves. She is intelligent, astute, and in my
opinion a truly gifted healer. I feel honored to know her
and write this reference for her.

Comment from Terence Smith

A wonderful experience.
I was guided through it with care and experience, and
appreciated it...

Terrence Smith [60 years,
Canada]

Comment from Paul Rubin

In 2013 I spent six months travelling around Peru and Ecuador researching and exploring the world of San Pedro and the many powerful and talented healers that work with this sacred plant. Each of the huachumeros and huachumeras I met brought with them their own special magic and essence, distilled in their medicine and ceremony. I learnt many different things from many amazing people.

It was in the lush valley of Vilcabamba, the Ecuadorian town most famous for its longevity and home to some of the oldest inhabitants in the world, where I had the pleasure of meeting Felicia and attending one of her ceremonies.
Felicia was one of the healers that stood out prominently for me during my travels. Not just because of her medicine (which is nothing short of remarkable!) or because of her beautiful hillside home with tropical gardens overlooked by Mt. Mandango, but because of her unwavering dedication and strong ethical boundaries.

She is a true maestra, a master of her craft, with a beautiful approach to ceremony. She remains continually engaged throughout the night, and commits herself wholeheartedly to the process.
As we lay around the central fire, under the ever watchful eye of Pepe - the brightly coloured Macaw and Felicia's trusted co-host for the past two decades, we were treated to expansive heavens and the ever gentle snorts of her nearby stabled horses.

The ceremony was profound for all who attended, comfortable and safe. It has remained with me over the last few years and continues to do so. For anyone who intends working with this master plant, be it for health reasons, spiritual exploration or plain curiosity - my advice is to seek out a powerful and responsible healer like Felicia to accompany you on your journey.

Thank you Felicia and San Pedro - I look forward to visiting you both again one day soon!